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3 Ways to Streamline Expectations While Making Things Easier for Educators

A Principal's Reflections

During workshops and coaching sessions, I am always asked what advice I have to help teachers and administrators make things as easy as possible while ensuring quality learning is taking place. Thus, the options are Zoom, Webex, and Google Meets. Over time these small wins can morph into catalysts for more extensive change efforts.

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New Cohort Opportunity for Designing Powerful Learning Experiences

Digital Promise

In September, Digital Promise launched a series of events to support educators with continuing and growing maker learning opportunities that meet the needs of learners through distance learning and beyond.

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The School Hall Pass Is Going Digital. Is That a Good Thing?

Edsurge

We were seeing a lot of kids strategically ask to go to the bathroom to meet up with other friends in the hallway,” says Christopher Sefcheck, superintendent of the New Kensington-Arnold School District. asks Monica Bulger, a senior fellow at Sesame Workshop who studies child rights.

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How to succeed with online PD for teachers

Neo LMS

How to power through a difficult parent-teacher meeting comes to mind, but there are many challenges that teachers learn how to handle in time. Here are a few guidelines to help you create successful online PD for teachers: Establish what teachers need. Professional development (PD) for teachers is an ongoing process.

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Want Students Who Think for Themselves? Let’s Eliminate Our Standardized School System

Edsurge

He suggested that instead of changing traditional school systems, guidelines and practices, I should be working toward helping students learn how to be successful within the current school environment. learners adapt to the standardized system”—to a learner-centered education where “the system adapts to meet the needs of the learner.”

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Navigating a Socially Distanced Classroom for Students with Autism

edWeb.net

Educators need to craft strategies and processes that meet health guidelines and ensure that students understand and adapt to new routines and behavioral expectations. In addition to providing workshops and training in schools across the country and Puerto Rico, Aimee works with STAR Autism Support to manage and develop large projects.

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How to Make an Impact as a Tech Coach

Shake Up Learning

She already knows that she needs to find ways to better integrate the 4Cs into each workshop that she develops, but what else is needed? In This Episode: [00:29] – Welcome back and get ready to meet Alison Jalufka, a Learning Coach. [01:24] 15:42] – Does she meet with the principal of her school and set goals together? . [17:46]

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